http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=480357&cc=5739 if we dont qualify ,McSven should keep his job. So he wants reward for failure??? he wants another crack of the whip to mess up the next campaign too eh If we miss out ,not only should mcSven be sacked and his entire coaching staff.... Barwick should also step down out of shame of appointing a complete dickhead for the job and missing out on some great names.
not only mclaren but most of the squad needs to be dropped in favor of players in good form rather than past glory not mclarens fault gerrard spoons a 6 yard effort wide 1-0 up vs russia
I would put a clause in contract of any future manager. If you don't qualify for the next major tournamet you get sacked without any compensation. That should provide some extra motivation.
venables cant spin this massive failure into "no one else could do better" logic. all the other managers actually f;cking qualified for tournaments. even graham taylor got us to euro 1992
He did his best to try and screw that one up though. We drew half of our games and only qualified with a last day draw in Poland where we were 13 minutes away from finishing 3rd in the group (out of four).
It doesn't look good. Gonna require a miracle in Israel, and then, to take care of business at Wembley..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7088360.stm if mcSven stays for the 2010 campaign....all credibility is lost. this guy is a hopeless clown.
He should never have been appointed. He should have been sacked after the Croatia defeat/Macedonia draw. He should have been sacked after the Israel draw. He should have been sacked after the loss to Russia
For an international manager its the cardinal sin to not qualify for a tournie. No way can mcClown survive missing 2008 and stay in work. He has FAILED.
i dislike mclaren and find him useless but who else would we have got? i reckon most other englishmen wouldve kept the usual underperforming 'stars' and we probably would have done as bad would scolari have truely shaken the squad? maybe barwick is the real reason we diddnt qualify? i know one of our best coaches left as the fa diddnt want to hire him and hes coaching canada i beleive now, so its fundamentally the fa who keep messing it up, i wonder if they add pressure to play lamps and gerard and the stars?
Surprisingly McSven doesn't think he should be sacked. Competition for places? I would like the team to be successful now and not in the future. The World Cup qualifying draw is on Nov 25th.
That's the thing, isn't it? Whether foreign or domestic, the playing staff are unlikely to change radically - no matter who you bring in, 90% of the existing squad remains as it is. There'll be the odd Chris Powell-style shake-up, but they'll probably be as temporary as that too. So the change-around from qualifying numpties back to ... well - back to perennial quarter finalists would be a step in the right direction at this point - needs to be down to the manager's ability to motivate, to match the best of their international counterparts tactically, to handle the arcane politics of the job and, last but in no way imaginable least, to live with the always absurd expectations that English football fans, led by our insane media, have for their national team. The new man needs to be able to do all of those things significantly better than Stevie Third Choice. I realise that narrows the field only very marginally (in fact, I think only Gary Megson, Peter Reid and Bryan Robson have faded out of the picture), but still - who ticks all the boxes? Mourinho, I reckon, although he'd soon tire of the "but he plays such pragmatic football, in my head England are just like Brazil in 1970, so what's he doing wrong" shtick that the media and fans will subject him to from day one. Scolari, we already know, would buckle in months for much the same reason. Klinsmann? I doubt even the board that went for Steve McClaren would go for a German - and that, in any case, assumes the German would want the job. Let's face it, if you thought Berti Vogts had a rough time of it up there with the Sweaties ... Hiddink, Capello, van Basten - all can expect considerably better, less stressful and equally well-paid options elsewhere. And domestically we'd be restricted to the likes of Harry Redknapp (Gawd bless'im, but he's hardly the progressive choice), Curbishley or Stuart Pearce (arf ... remember when that was seriously mooted after his seven - and, as it turned out, only - good games with City at the start of his managerial career?). Obviously, McClaren can't stay, he's a disaster. But I wouldn't want to be the guy making the choice for his replacement.
Forget Venables.. He is only backing McSven because when McSven gets axed, he will be axed also, and most likely not be back coaching for England at the Senior level. Plus. Venables is basically telling McSven what to do anyways, so he would lose that as well. Time to get a real manager, and not a puppet for the FA..
just pathetic England needs a real manager, Lippi wants to work in England, fluency in English sure as hell has not done any good in recent memory so...
Patrick Barclay makes his pitch for sticking with McClaren ... and for not letting the yahoos run the show.
Matt, would you have McClaren as manager of Liverpool? Your answer on a postcard to: Should Steve McClaren be England Manager? The FA Cockneyland.